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The story behind Australia's incredible democratic system
Behind the quirks of Australia's incredible democratic system are a series of complex human backstories. (ABC News)
As a nation, we sort of vaguely understand this, and take a generalised pride in the triennial democracy sausage, and the beige, competent omnipresence of the Australian Electoral Commission.
Annabel Crabb unearths the individuals and stories behind the features that combine to make Australian democracy globally unique.
But the itemised list of our peculiarities, and the tales that twine around the getting of them at various points along the life-span of our young Federation — just 125 years old next year! — is worth reviewing, if you have a moment.
Civic Duty: Annabel Crabb is on a one-woman mission to make Australian politics interesting
Australian politics: it’s enough to make your eyes glaze over — especially if you’re a 10-year-old kid being forced to sit through a HASS lesson on how our unique parliamentary system works.
But what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if there was a way to make people “marvel at the miracle that is the Australian electoral process” instead of rolling their eyes and running for the nearest exit?
Annabel Crabb is on a mission to prove that there is — she’s taking Aussie audiences along for the ride via her new series Civic Duty for ABC, and engaging the younger generation through her recently-released children’s book, There’s A Prawn In Parliament House: The Kids’ Guide To Australia’s Amazing Democracy.
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Annabel Crabb’s new ABC show looks at how our democracy sausage is made. It needs more sauce
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Ever since she started knocking on politicians’ doors in 2012 for Kitchen Cabinet, Annabel Crabb has been determined to put a human face on our elected representatives. She has always made them reveal more than what they could, or could not, cook: Christopher Pyne was funny, former treasurer Joe Hockey lived like a sharehouse student, while former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce blithely served up beef stew to the non-meat-eating Crabb.
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